What is ACT all about? August 3, 2010
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The Application Compatibility Toolkit is a suite of tools and documentation that will aid your migration to Windows 7. It has three main components:
* Application Compatibility Manager
“The Application Compatibility Manager (ACM) is a tool that enables you to configure, to collect, and to analyze your data, so that you can fix any issues prior to deploying a new operating system in your organization.”
“The Compatibility Administrator enables the creation and the use of custom and standard compatibility databases. Both the custom databases and the standard databases store the known compatibility fixes, compatibility modes, and AppHelp messages, in addition to the required application-matching information, for installation on your local computers.
By default, the Windows® operating system installs a System Application Fix database for use with the Compatibility Administrator. This database can be updated through Windows Update, and is stored in the %WINDIR% \AppPatch directory. Your custom databases are automatically stored in the %WINDIR% \AppPatch\Custom directory and are installed by using the Sdbinst.exe tool provided with the Compatibility Administrator.”
* Testing tools such as Standard User Analyzer
You would use these tools as part of your XP to W7 migration. To help you get a handle on these tools, check out this walkthrough as well as these great virtual labs on Technet! For a visual tour and demo, here’s a video.
updated list of compatible apps from Microsoft April 7, 2010
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working with ACT data- demo April 7, 2010
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Here’s a useful demo on working with the data returned from a DCP (Data Collection Package) in ACT.
IE compatibility portal April 6, 2010
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Just like it says up there in the the title- this is a link you might want to keep handy when testing IE 7 & 8.
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w7 application compatibility center March 2, 2010
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I was asked last week by a customer, “Is there a place where I can find which applications will work on Windows 7?”
program compatibility assistant February 18, 2010
Posted by examROAR in Configuring Hardware and Applications, MCITP: Enterprise Desktop Administrator 7 (70-686), MCTS: Windows 7, Configuring (70-680).Tags: 70-680, 70-682, 70-685, 70-686, appcompat, program compatibility assistant
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The PCA is an appcompat feature built into Windows 7 and Server 2008. It’ll spring up on you, alerting you of known compatibility issues, and even suggest a course of action.
PCA on Server 2008 R2
how to use standard user analyzer February 12, 2010
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The SUA is a tool from Microsoft that allows you to review and anticipate potential issues with your XP applications and the UAC from Vista\W7. In short, you can learn more about it from the following links:
